Today at 10:00am, we practiced a safety drill and went to our meeting place on May Street. The children sat in their work groups with their teachers and responded, “here” when they heard their name called as designated teachers checked all bathrooms and small areas, grabbed your sign-in sheet from this morning, the yellow contact cards,…
The West Wing Building Area is a space where children have opportunities to collaborate. Sometimes these experiences begin with a common idea and other times children begin with individual ideas and are challenged to figure out ways to connect with the group. During a morning appointment, Coco begins to create a sidewalk next to the…
Relaxing. Reflective. These two words really capture how this morning’s Coffee with Roleen felt! We had thoughtful discussions about how we can take care of ourselves in order to be better parents. We also discussed everything from discipline to mindfulness to our frustrations as parents. We also spent a good deal of time talking about…
As the children developed deeper-connections with the vertical garden, they realized that our living garden was missing a sign that would communicate its importance. We decided to create a “Community Garden” sign in the woodworking space. As we spent many days working on the sign, we decided to pause and reflect. I wondered what the children…
Thank you, Heather Andrews, for the thoughtful reflection below. [Show slideshow] 1 2 ► ### We were excited to take advantage of a last-minute date night last Thursday to stop by the Mar Vista art walk. Driving down Venice, heading to the school and seeing the extensive sidewalk art displays, live concerts, and dance…
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The children were appearing stuck in representing their ideas of the boy and girl masks and the teachers were wondering how they might support them with materials beyond paints. Following a West Coast Collaborative tour with Clarissa Esguerra of the LACMA exhibit on the work of artist Marc Chagall, the teachers were inspired to share with…
The woodworking space welcomes the children from both the EW and the WW to work together with multiple tools. It is in this process that they can bridge new and seasoned experiences and expand on their learning by sharing their challenges and discoveries and support each other in the different ways of using the tools.…
What a special morning discussing everything from empowering our children to appropriate consequences to our children’s self-esteem. Thank you to The Griffith Family for opening up their beautiful home. [Show slideshow]
The West Wing is continuing their exploration of non-verbal communication that started in November. In viewing their photos in a shared binder, the teachers noticed a limited amount of emotional descriptors beyond happy, sad, scared, mad, and silly. We also began to see the children becoming more attached to who is in the picture rather…